Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 3, No.5, December 2015 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asia Pacific Journal of Design and Development of LPU-B High Multidisciplinary Research School Website Vol. 3 No.5,94-104 December 2015 Part III Abner B. Tupas P-ISSN 2350-7756 Graduate School – MAITE, Lyceum of the Philippines University, E-ISSN 2350-8442 Batangas City, Philippines www.apjmr.com [email protected] Date Received: October 25, 2015; Date Revised: December 05, 2015 Abstract - This study was conducted to develop and assess the LPU-B High School website as perceived by the faculty members and selected staff and students in terms of content, efficiency, functionality and usability. It also sought to test the significant difference in the assessment of the two groups of respondents; and to propose measures to enhance the website. The applications were built in the web. It comprises of three aspects: a database component, the use of a programming/scripting language, the design and implementation of the graphical user interface (GUI). The user interface was written primarily in Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and is accessible via any web browser. The processing application handles request/tasks performed by the user on the server side using PHP content management system technology. The server then returns the appropriate information from the database. The data storage is in the form of relational databases using MySQL that stores data needed by the application in its tables. All components of the application, which include the user interface, processing scripts and database reside on the server. The website Uniform resource locator (URL) is hs.lpubatangas.edu.ph. Keywords: web development, software engineering, programming language, HTML INTRODUCTION Over the years, the term “web design and Today, websites are the best way to publicize and development” has become a catchall for a process disseminate information to the utmost number of that encompasses a number of different disciplines, individual in the world. The Internet is a technology from user experience design, to document mark up, to for organizations providing means to communicate serious programming. There is a major difference with the public. It also has the only one characteristic between “web design” and just designing a nice without geographical boundary or time limit, website and web development. A website essentially everyone interacts through one-to-many or many-to- has two sides to it. The design side that creates the many networks meeting matches to do business and look and feel of the site based on what you, the site provide or request services they want [1]. owner, would like to communicate to your clients. Web browsers such as Firefox and Internet The other side is based on functionality and what it is Explorer are the means to deliver the information on that you want your site to do. The first thing in this a webpage, the basic foundation of a website which process is website design. Designing of a website has the basic structure (architecture) written in web plays an important role. Well-designed website can Program. Nowadays information age, the majorities attract huge visitors and helps you to beat your of organizations have a website with their policy and competitors. Web design is the skill of creating their artefact and service information. It is perhaps presentations of content (usually hypertext or the mainly economic and the most suitable way to hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through disseminate information and data all over the world. the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or Due to advancing strides and rapid changes, computer other Web-enabled software like internet television trends had surfaced. It becomes a vital fixture in clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers. school in which the mental capabilities of students are On the other hand, web development is being tested and their creative skills are developed developing the business identity on the web. It is using their modern technology which include the creating a synergetic effect between both facets of creation of web application. your business - online and offline. It‟s using the 94 P-ISSN 2350-7756 | E-ISSN 2350-8442 | www.apjmr.com Tupas, Design and Development of LPU-B High School Website _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ successful combination of graphic design, use of simple protocols that are easy to implement in copywriting, programming, usability, human comparison with other methods [5]. The database computer interaction, and online marketing skills to driven application with PHP programming language develop and execute a successful project on the web. and MySQL database management are appropriate A successful web development company will find the tools for developing web-based teaching support balance and make it all work. system. The web-based teaching support system To ensure that the developed website has been in successfully implemented features of security, user line with the requirements of the users, valuable friendliness, inter-operability, reliability and inputs were gathered from the respondents through scalability as evaluated by faculty members and in-depth interviews which were analyzed after the students [6]. Web operation goal is to improve the initial website development. These respondents were satisfaction of site visitors to make the user trust and also asked to use the system and to provide feedbacks identity website, they can obtain information on a after using it. The results as well as the observations web site [7]. from their first use of the prototype were used by the During recent years navigation using web pages researcher to implement further enhancements of the have gained a considerable importance not only website. With all the aspirations and hopes, the among the academia but also amongst students, researcher decided to design the LPUB High School parents, industry and businesses, but the pioneers of website that could help the university to advertise its the web were researchers and university teachers [3]. curricular offerings and services beyond the borders Today, Web is not only an information resource of the Asia Pacific region. but also it is becoming an automated tool in various applications. Due to the increasing popularity of OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY Web, one can be very cautious in designing the This study aimed to design and develop the LPU- Website. Poor and careless web design leads to hard B High School website. Specifically, the study was ship to public utility and does not serve the purpose guided by the following objectives: to design and [8]. develop a website for LPU-B High School; to assess Semantic Web creates an artificial intelligence the LPU-B High School Website as perceived by the (AI) application which will make web content faculty members, selected staff and students in terms meaningful to computers, thereby unleashing a of content, efficiency, functionality and usability; to revolution of new abilities and it intends to support test the significant difference in the assessment of the machine-processing capabilities that will automate two groups of respondents in terms of content, web applications and services [9]. efficiency, functionality and usability; and to propose Bhatia and Singh [10] found that one of the measures that will enhance the website. foremost causes of using design patterns is essentially parallel to those for using any object oriented REVIEW OF LITERATURE techniques. Design patterns prop up reuse, without The Web has brought many unique benefits to constraining implementations to a specific platform marketing including low costs in distributing or language, and promote efficient use of design time. information and media to a global audience [2]. The Alexander [11] found that if universities want to internet is a collection of various services and successfully market their courses online, their resources. It connects millions of computers together websites must be designed to meet the needs of globally, forming a network in which any computer prospective students can communicate with any other computer as long as The project study of Robles [12] aimed to create they are both connected to the Internet [3]. Research an online learning facility for Saint Bridget College. focuses to concentrate on many distributed object- The design of the asynchronous environment was component technologies and web frameworks for used as tool to create interactive content for use in web-based applications especially in e-commerce, e- their courses. The proponent used web programming business and the other similar areas within web-based tools such as PHP general scripting language and enterprises [1], [4]. Macromedia Dreamweaver. Web services are applications provided by Casuga [13] covered the development of web- service servers. The use of Web services implies the based clearance system which is deemed to improve 95 P-ISSN 2350-7756 | E-ISSN 2350-8442 | www.apjmr.com Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 3, No. 5, December 2015 Tupas, Design and Development of LPU-B High School Website _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the process of securing clearance particularly in the In terms of